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| 8456328427 | Paleolithic age | first part of the Stone Age typified by use of stone and hunting and gathering | 0 | |
| 8456328428 | Mesolithic age | agriculture begins, nomads | 1 | |
| 8456328429 | Neolithic age | after neolithic revolution, division of labor and agriculture is now used; decrease in nomads | 2 | |
| 8456328430 | fertile crescent | area between the tigris and euphrates river, good farmland, abandoned because climate became too dry and over farmed the land | 3 | |
| 8456328431 | fire | allowed people to cook and smoke meat(preservation of food, boiling water, hunting, warfare | 4 | |
| 8456328432 | human migration patterns | homo erectus spread to Asia and Europe from Africa; humans migrated to Australia 60,000 years ago; bantu from central to southern Africa | 5 | |
| 8456328433 | code of Hammurabi | first written law, comprehensive law code, women have some rights, harsh punishments (eye for an eye) | 6 | |
| 8456328434 | hinduism | oldest major religion, Gurus holy man, vedas and upanishads are holy books, spread because of its extreme spirituality and satisfying rules of conduct, gods: shiva, vishnu; reincarnation, caste system | 7 | |
| 8456328435 | buddhism | increased contact between India and China, founded by Siddartha Guttama, spread with missionaries and monks, emperor Ashoka converted and helped to spread it, nirvana, 8 fold path, against caste system | 8 | |
| 8456328436 | daoism | buddhism shifts its practices in china, nature's harmony and and spirituality, cosmic forces, govt. is not very important, founded by Laozi | 9 | |
| 8456328437 | shintoism | religion of japan, numerous gods associated with the natural world, nature spirits | 10 | |
| 8456328438 | animism | tribal worship of ancestors | 11 | |
| 8456328439 | Confucianism | founded by Confucius, respect for elders, importance in education, no deity, patriarchal, women not important to society | 12 | |
| 8456328440 | Christianity | paul splits it from judaism, monotheistic, founded in Palestine, supported equality of all people, help the poor, spread by the extensive roads of Rome | 13 | |
| 8456328441 | Islam | began in Mecca in the saudi peninsula, monotheistic, Quran and hadiths were social texts, 5 pillars, spread to persia, syria, spain, and france through conquest | 14 | |
| 8456328442 | sunni | believe abu bakar was Muhammad's rightful successor | 15 | |
| 8456328443 | shite | believe Ali is Muhammad's rightful successor | 16 | |
| 8456328444 | feudalism | system in Zhou dynasty were a monarch relies on family members and nobles (vassals) to provide troops and tax money | 17 | |
| 8456328445 | fief | land exchange | 18 | |
| 8456328446 | fall of rome | more gradual than the fall of the Han, empire was too large to defend, plagues and invasions (goths, visogoths, vandals) simultaneously, Hellenistic culture keeps eastern portion of rome together, germanic soldiers turned on romans, population decreased, the patricians also no longer cared about the military, literacy declines | 19 | |
| 8456328447 | fall of han | corrupt bureaucrats, peasant taxes, farmers forced into serfdom, Yellow turban rebellion, break china into three kingdoms | 20 | |
| 8456328448 | silk road | connects china, middle east, india, eastern europe... spread ideas and goods, buddhism was brought to china | 21 | |
| 8456328449 | what was the effect of urbanization? | a division of labor | 22 | |
| 8456328450 | china's view of other cultures | isolation, don't want to trade with other countries until the spanish got silver | 23 | |
| 8456328451 | bureaucracy in rome | roman republic, citizens elect magistrates, senate, 2 consuls share power, twelve tables are the law code | 24 | |
| 8456328452 | roman empire | created when julius caesar overthrows the republic | 25 | |
| 8456328453 | Caesar Augustus | first emperor of rome, former name was octavian defeated mark antony | 26 | |
| 8456328454 | bureaucracy in china | had 130,000 bureaucrats during the Han, extremely strong | 27 | |
| 8456328455 | bureaucracy in india | mauryan had a substantial bureaucracy and a postal service, gupta had no bureaucracy | 28 | |
| 8456328456 | caste system | brahmins, khsatriyas, varshyas, sudras, untouchables | 29 | |
| 8456328457 | use of roads | reduced travel time, moved army and information | 30 | |
| 8456328458 | bohisattvas | buddhist equivalents of saints | 31 | |
| 8456328459 | hippocrates | father of medicine, greek physician whose works were recovered by Muslims | 32 | |
| 8456328460 | Justinian | rebuilt Constantinople, ruler of the byzantine empire, wrote a unified law code, his builders built the Hagia Sofia | 33 | |
| 8456328461 | mali | sudanic state, traded gold, books, ivory, salt | 34 | |
| 8456328462 | mansa musa | greatest king of mali, richest man ever, led a camel caravan while on his pilgrimage to mecca | 35 | |
| 8456328463 | ibn battuta | arab traveler who described african societies in his travel records | 36 | |
| 8456328464 | marco polo | traveler from venice, worked in Mongol leader khan's court for 17 years acquiring great wealth | 37 | |
| 8456328465 | causes of the crusades | christians wanted to take back the holy land from the Muslims, attraction to loot from the middle east | 38 | |
| 8456328466 | effects of the crusades | muslim science and astronomy was spread to Europe, west is exposed to new culture, spurs changes in the west, greater thirst for spices, guilds (apprentice, journeymen, master) | 39 | |
| 8456328467 | zheng he | chinese muslim admiral who commanded indian ocean, persian gulf, and red sea trade expeditions | 40 | |
| 8456328468 | vikings | Scandinavian raiders who disrupted coastal areas of western europe, set up govt. in kiev | 41 | |
| 8456328469 | Rurik | first prince of the kievan rus | 42 | |
| 8456328470 | Vladimir I | required mass baptism of kiev's citizens | 43 | |
| 8456328471 | mongols | nomadic pastoralists, tolerant of religion, warriors, elective monarchy, collapsed after the death of Genghis Khan, lived in yurts, created the largest empire ever | 44 | |
| 8456328472 | impact of rice production in east asia | it was expensive to transport by land so the grand canal had to be constructed, population increased | 45 | |
| 8456328473 | polynesian migration | began 3500 years ago, depleted land resources, brought animals like pigs, changed the land by burning forests for agriculture | 46 | |
| 8456328474 | byzantine empire | eastern half of roman empire, capital at Constantinople, orthodox faith, education for all, unified law central govt. | 47 | |
| 8456328475 | spread of Islam | military conquest and trade to India, south Asia, southeast Asia, Africa,and Spain, religiously tolerant towards conquered people | 48 | |
| 8456328476 | pizzarro | spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas and captured their leader, Atahuallapa | 49 | |
| 8456328477 | cortez | conquistador responsible for conquering the Aztecs | 50 | |
| 8456328478 | montezuma | last Aztec emperor, killed when cortez conquered his people | 51 | |
| 8456328479 | atahualpa | last incan emperor, killed by pizzarro, refused to convert to Christianity | 52 | |
| 8456328480 | effects of the columbian exchange | contact between Europe and the Americas, traded slaves, animals, and american crops, disease(smallpox) was also spread to the Americas | 53 | |
| 8456328481 | mughal empire | established by Babur in India in 1526, from Mongol descent, interested in contact with western traders | 54 | |
| 8456328482 | ottoman empire | established by the Turks that captured Constantinople, renamed it Istanbul and the religion became Islam, successful army and navy | 55 | |
| 8456328483 | gun powder empires | an empire formed by outside conquerers who unified the regions they conquered through the use of guns (ex. Mughal, Ottoman, Muslim, and Safavid) | 56 | |
| 8456328484 | benefits of mongol domination | first passport, increased trade, encouraged travel and exchange of ideas | 57 | |
| 8456328485 | triangular trade | trade between africa, europe, and the americas | 58 | |
| 8456328486 | indian ocean trade | different patterns of trade, exchanged textiles | 59 | |
| 8456328487 | sugar | first cash crop in the americas to be imported to europe, previously imported from asia | 60 | |
| 8456328488 | motivations for exploration | God, gold, and glory | 61 | |
| 8456328489 | spread of christianity to the americas | conquistadors argued it was necessary to spread the gospel through conquest to the indians, later Las casas argued that they must convert indians peacefully | 62 | |
| 8456328490 | De gama | sailed around the southern tip of africa (cape of good hope) to get to india, new trade route to the indies that did not require Europeans to interact with the Muslim ottomans | 63 | |
| 8456328491 | Portuguese exploration | henry the navigator began exploration by going around the african coast, da gama made it to the cape of good hope, and they made it to Japan and india | 64 | |
| 8456328492 | silver and the economy | silver became the global currency after it was discovered in the americas, the Chinese wanted to trade the spanish spices for it | 65 | |
| 8456328493 | Oceania | continued to be isolated throughout the time period | 66 | |
| 8456328494 | myths | used by historians to learn about culture and religion at the time period | 67 | |
| 8456328495 | how history is written | by taking into consideration multiple points of view, evolution and interaction of people | 68 | |
| 8456328496 | greek building | columns, rectangular shaped, stone monuments | 69 | |
| 8456328497 | gothic architecture | pointed arches, flying buttresses, stained glass windows, high vaulted ceilings | 70 | |
| 8456328498 | byzantine architecture | onion domes, layers of religious symbols, icons | 71 | |
| 8456328499 | romanesque architecture | rectangular, shorter, plain buildings with small windows | 72 | |
| 8456328500 | iconography | artistic representation of a religious figure | 73 | |
| 8456328501 | carpet pages | cover full page in artwork like a persian carpet | 74 | |
| 8456328502 | illuminated manuscripts | christian and muslim books created by writing using calligraphy and adding pictures | 75 | |
| 8456328503 | fresco | Italian watercolor on fresh plaster (sistine chapel) | 76 | |
| 8456328504 | zoomorphic | style of using animals in illuminated manuscripts | 77 | |
| 8456328505 | botanical design | plant designs | 78 | |
| 8456328506 | byzantine art | featured flat icons with similar faces, lacked proportion, and no individuality | 79 |
